CSC wins $5.9 million deal to digitize immigrant files
Compurers Sciences Corporation will convert A-files in anticipation of a guest worker program; DHS gains the ability to share critical data; CSC shows why it is such a lucrative takeover target
Chalk up another win to El Segundo, California-based Computer Sciences Corporation. Last year we reported that the company was being eyed as a potential takeover target by various private equity firms, in part due to its success in landing deals with the IRS ($36 million), BAE Systems ($1.9 billion) , DuPont ($1.6 billion to $2 billion) and MBDA ($100 million). Now we can report an additional success: a $5.9 million deal with the Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency to develop the Integrated Digitization Document Management Program (IDDMP), which aims to convert so-called “alien files” (or A-files) from paper to digital format.
USCIS maintains an archive of more than 55 million A-files, which are used to make decisions about immigrants’ applications for citizenship and other benefits. Under the agreement, Computer Sciences will capture and retain scanned and electronic images for each file, which can each contain anywhere from one to hundreds of pages, and make them available to authorized users from a single document repository. “The system will allow Homeland Security users across the agency to search, track, organize and view records, process cases more quickly, and manage and share vast quantities of data while protecting sensitive information,” said CSC’s James Sheaffer. In the future, the system might also serve as the backbone of a guest worker program.
Other companies involved in the project are Alexandria, Virginia-based Perpetual Logic; San Francisco, California-based Taxonomy Strategies; and McLean, Virginia-based Washington Consulting.
-read more in this company news release
